{"id":2475,"date":"2011-06-24T11:10:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T18:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2011\/06\/24\/one-document-under-seige\/"},"modified":"2011-06-25T20:03:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T03:03:46","slug":"one-document-under-seige","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2011\/06\/one-document-under-seige\/","title":{"rendered":"One Document, Under Seige"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Time Magazine article is a frontal assault on the legitimacy and  gravity of the Constitution in a news opinion article titled to alarm  people over our Constitution &#8220;Under Siege.&#8221;\u00a0 Time Magazine is  perpetrating a &#8220;Siege&#8221; on the Constitution while warning about it at the  same time.\u00a0 This is a classic propaganda construct.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/one-document-under-seige.pdf\" title=\"One Document, Under Seige\">One Document, Under Seige<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If the Constitution was intended to limit the federal government, it sure doesn&#8217;t say so. Article I, Section 8, the longest section of the longest article of the Constitution, is a drumroll of congressional power. And it ends with the &#8220;necessary and proper&#8221; clause, which delegates to Congress the power &#8220;to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.&#8221; Limited government indeed.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Congress  shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises,  to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare  of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be  uniform throughout the United States;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To borrow money on the credit of the United States;<\/li>\n<li>To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;<\/li>\n<li>To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;<\/li>\n<li>To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;<\/li>\n<li>To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;<\/li>\n<li>To establish post offices and post roads;<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"science and useful arts\" name=\"science and useful arts\"><\/a>To promote  the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times  to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective  writings and discoveries;<\/li>\n<li>To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;<\/li>\n<li>To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;<\/li>\n<li>To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;<\/li>\n<li>To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;<\/li>\n<li>To provide and maintain a navy;<\/li>\n<li>To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;<\/li>\n<li>To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;<\/li>\n<li>To  provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for  governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the  United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of  the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the  discipline prescribed by Congress;<\/li>\n<li>To exercise exclusive  legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding  ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the  acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United  States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the  consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for  the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful  buildings;&#8211;And<\/li>\n<li>To make all laws which shall be necessary and  proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other  powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United  States, or in any department or officer thereof.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Time Magazine&#8217;s interpretation of the Necessary and Proper Clause ignores the language that the Necessary and Proper Clause applies to &#8220;<em>carrying into execution the foregoing [enumerated] powers<\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0 The Necessary and Proper Cluase is not a general grant of government power as Time Magazine, and leftists, seem to think it is. <u>It only grants Congress limited power to pass laws to execute already<em> enumerated<\/em> powers.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;we shouldn&#8217;t be so delicate about changing the Constitution or reinterpreting it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Article 5 requires 75% of the legislatures of the states to amend the Constitution.\u00a0 The Founders intended it to be difficult to amend and they certainly did not intend for it to be &#8220;reinterpreted!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Time Magazine article is a frontal assault on the legitimacy and gravity of the Constitution in a news opinion article titled to alarm people over our Constitution &#8220;Under Siege.&#8221;\u00a0 Time Magazine is perpetrating a &#8220;Siege&#8221; 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